Resources

In this section, you will find many resources on the issue of prostitution : Facts and figures EWL publications and articles Video clips Films Educational material Publications and articles Blogs Links (campaigns, NGOs, foundations, etc.)
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This article displays many campaign clips raising awareness on prostitution being a form of violence against women, through different means: either by showing the reality of prostitution for women, made of violence and oppression, or by giving a voice to women survivors, or by calling on men not to be accomplice of the system of prostitution. Different strategies, with the same goal: convey the message that we can reach a world free from prostitution.
Real men don’t buy girls
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EWL position paper ‘Towards a Europe free from all forms of male violence against women’ (2010)
This position paper constitutes the basis for the European Women’s Lobby (EWL) and its members to develop advocacy work on the issue of male violence against women at European and national level. It highlights the EWL position on the issue and presents its recommendations towards a Europe free form all forms of male violence against women.
Nordic-Baltic Pilot Project: Support and Assist Women (...)
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Some facts and figures about prostitution 73% of women in prostitution report having been subjected to physical aggressions while in prostitution 68% of women in prostitution meet the criteria for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in the same range as victims of torture 62% of women in prostitution report having been raped A research project in Oregon shows that 78% of women in prostitution had been raped at an average of 16 times per year by their pimps, and 33 times by their clients. Out (...)
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The Legalisation of prostitution: A Violation of International Law, Dianne Post, 2010
The Women’s Front of Norway report - A glimpse of 30 years of struggle against prostitution by the women’s liberation movement in Norway, 2011
Briefing - Swedish law and policies on trafficking in human beings, by Gunilla S. Ekberg, B.S.W., J.D., January 2012
Briefing - On legalised prostitution in The Netherlands, by Karin Werkman, November 2011
The Swedish Approach: A European Union Country Fights Sex (...)
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